Migration and Globalization

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This paper discusses how an increasingly sophisticated global economy has resulted in significantly changing the dynamics of migrant labor. It explains that the effects of globalization on domestic societies and economies has now become a controversial issue. The paper concludes that unless governments and policy makers are able to buttress the forces of globalization with institutions and policies that are able to spread the benefits to the vast majority of the world's population, it is likely that political, social, and labor movements will succeed in reversing the process of globalization.

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"The United Nations Population Division estimates that there were 175 million people residing outside their country of birth in 2000. This estimate represents a hundred percent increase over the 1975 estimated figure of migrants (Migration News, 2002). Further, if labor force participation rates are applied to UN estimates of migrants by country, it becomes evident that the migration of labor has played a significant role in influencing the upward trend in global migration in the fourth quarter of the twentieth century. For, such an exercise reveals that there were approximately 80 million migrant workers around the globe at the turn of the twentieth century (Migration News, 2004). Although such large numbers of migrant workers is not without historical precedence, it is important to note that an increasingly sophisticated global economy has resulted in significantly changing the dynamics of migrant labor. Indeed, this fact is evident in an analysis that compares and contrasts the traditional causes and factors of migrant labor with the more recent effects of a global world economy."

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